“We think of Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty and sexuality ... “I believe it's the first time that SAMA has had loans from an Italian museum,” she says. The museum in Naples ...

The birth of Aphrodite, the ancient goddess of sexual love, was a gruesome affair. Aphrodite’s story, sung by ancient Greek poets and set down in some of the earliest prose from the Greek world ...

It was thought to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Some who came to see it ... To claim the object, Italian officials would have to establish that the statue had been found in their ...

If your image of Aphrodite’s birth is of a lithe ... The first room opens with the most conventional image of a goddess identified with love and beauty, although it quickly departs from that ...

Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

To describe the ancient Greek deity Aphrodite simply as "the goddess of love" is ... well, just too simple. Skip to main content Skip to main content Register for more free ...

Prof. Hughes continued: “We think of Aphrodite as a sort of sweet goddess of romantic love. But actually, she’s the goddess of desire — and desire is a much more powerful, potent feeling.

With stunning ancient artwork, Aphrodite and the Gods of Love explores the goddess' role as the protectress and her origins and relationships with men and gods, exposing a more manipulative and ...